A Good American Synopsis:

A Good American is a documentary, history movie. The movie is about a the story of the best code breaker the USA ever had and how he and a small team within NSA created a surveillance tool that could pick up any electronic signal on earth filter it for targets and render results in real time while keeping the privacy as demanded by the US constitution the tool was perfect except for one thing it was way too cheap therefor NSA leadership who had fallen into the hands of industrydumped it three weeks prior to 9/11 in a secret test run of the program against the pre-9/11 NSA database in early 2002 the program immediately found the terrorists this is the story of former technical director of NSA bill binney and a program called thinthread.